the beach at padre island scared about the forecast? nope. >> i feel confident that, you know, it's not going to hit, period. >> reporter: is the castro family at least making preparations? >> not at all. >> there we go, right there. >> reporter: but we did find sailboat owners in corpus christi preparing just in case. >> supposed to be a nonevent but you don't want to wait until it's blowing 40 knots to try and get your boat ready. >> reporter: the lousy forecast may be scaring some tourists away. >> we're leaving. we've got to go. >> reporter: but maybe it will cool things off. it's beginning to look like malachi's bark. maybe worse than don's bite. >> i haven't done anything. nothing. i probably won't even pull things off my porch. >> reporter: in corpus christi, abc news. as texas suffers through one of its worst droughts on record, tropical storm don's drenching